The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.

Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.